A few months ago the 1940 census was finally released (hooray!). I have several mysterious grandparents to track down and I can't wait for it all to be indexed. When I signed in one day, there was an announcement about badges for the states that you've helped index.
I worked very hard in small spurts at indexing. In a little over one month, I indexed over 2500 names with a 95% correct rating. (And lots of the errors were blank pages that I could never decide how to do correctly. OH WELL!!)
I loved reading the census & peering into peoples' lives. How many kids? Where did they live? What did they do for work? I have loved looking for my own ancestors & felt the same type of feelings towards all the strangers that I indexed. No one wants to be forgotten.
It has been fun finding Scott's parents & our grandparents in the 1940 records. Everyone working to index the records has meant that now we can find the records we want. Hooray!!
See the yellow line up there? That's my Grandma Peggy. She was nine years old & living in Juliaetta, Idaho with her mother and step-father. Her father died nine months before she was born!! He had liver cancer, went home from the hospital around Christmas time, & then returned to the hospital & died. I am glad that she was born!!
I love genealogical research. I like knowing the history of my family - where we came from, who we are, what we have experienced. I have started another blog to write family history stories & liken them to historical events & places. I just have not written any entries yet. Soon!
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